MEDIA: Review

The Call Of The Sea. DEATH BITE MAGAZINE

POSTMORTEM is the second band from Estonia on pages of my zine. The band was founded in 1990 as thrash metal band. After a lot of line-up changes the band released their three demo tapes "NIGHTMARE AGAIN" (1993), "PRINCE OF DARKNESS" (1994), & live demo "LIVE ON THE TOP" (1995),these demos gets good reviews, in the international metal-press. After that POSTMORTEM released their first cassette album "BLOODY JUSTICE COMES…" (I reviewed this album in DEATH BITE # 5).

Second album by these longhaired Estonians provides tons of great metal grooves, generally romantic feel to the whole creation and geniously simple songwriting. You know, kind of songs that stick in mind after the first listen and stay there forever or lot at last you are bored to death. Me, I'm not bored at all, I just enjoy this piece of DEATH-ish grooves, PARADISE LOST-ish and TAMAT-ic vibes sprinkling out throughout the album and pure heavy metal sound.

POSTMORTEM are building their empire with each new release. "THE CALL OF THE SEA" again provides some variation with their dark realm where uncompromising death metal meets grandiose Evil atmosphere - a world entirely of their own. Sheer brutality creates enrapturing war-like moods where POSTMORTEMS's trademarks such as demonically intense double bass drums' cannonades raging along vicious battle of guitar and truly devilish vocals are all present and developed. The use of keyboards also get much more display than earlier and that certainly adds more depth to the music - a different shades of ancient ones c an be felt!

After all, POSTMORTEM is heavy as fuck and dynamic enough to keep you jumping around and breaking things for 32 minutes. They always keep keep changing tempos without loosing tightness for a second and combining fast with slow, and pure aggression with intricate melodies they didn't need much time to win my symphaties. "THE CALL OF THE SEA" merge the best ingridients from bands like DEATH, MORBID ANGEL and TIAMAT adding a large dose of their own melodies and "BLOWING WAVES" gets all my awards for the best melodic death metal song of the year! Check it out and you'll see.